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	<description>Thoughts on learning, life and technology</description>
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		<title>People who multitask suffer from weaker self-control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend and professor is confident her granddaughters are able to multitask without any significant negative impact on their performance. She observes them using the computer and cell phone while doing homework and listening to music or watching television. They are star students in demanding schools. 
I told her I have my doubts. I suspect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/12/18/multi-taskers-treat-all-information-as-equally-important-while-single-taskers-focus-on-information-relating-to-their-current-objectives/</link>
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		<title>Fracture-critical systems &#8212; too much efficiency is a bad thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article provides examples of an engineering concept regarding what makes systems (engineered or natural) either robust or failure prone. The latter are characterized by lack of redundancy, interconnectedness, efficiency, and sensitivity to stress. Together, these characteristics amplify the effects of exponentially increasing strain prior to system collapse. Cascading effects follow from the lack of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/11/23/fracture-critical-systems-too-much-efficiency-is-a-bad-thing/</link>
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		<title>9 Planetary Boundaries &#8212; new framwork for evaluating human impacts on our own survival</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists propose a new framework for understanding when and how the results of our activities are bringing any of the nine most critical Earth processes close to thresholds beyond which irreversible, catastrophic global destabilization will occur. Some sort of rational, structured approach seems necessary for organizing resources to investigate the areas of greatest global survival [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/10/14/9-critical-earth-processes/</link>
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		<title>View of Sandias from Pino Trail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Our view on the morning of 7 September. The Albuquerque vicinity has many great hiking, mountain biking, and horseback riding trails.
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		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/09/09/view-of-sandias-from-pino-trail/</link>
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		<title>My first Healthcare Reform Town Hall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday my wife and I braved the heat and sun to stand in line for over an hour for a chance to participate in Congressman Martin Heinrich&#8217;s town hall. The line outside the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Center snaked around and around the parking lot. We frequently heard perplexed voices asking, &#8220;Where is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/08/23/my-first-healthcare-reform-town-hall/</link>
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		<title>More evidence that childhood stress negatively impacts intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems that poverty and the endless ills that accompany being poor are passed from generation to generation. The Economist reports on research that further confirms the brain science behind apparently inherited lack of resourcefulness. The bottom line is that growing up in resource deprived circumstances creates persistent stressors. Stress provokes natural physiochemical responses that, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/04/04/more-evidence-that-childhood-stress-negatively-impacts-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Earth Hour: A Time for Coordinated Inaction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Participate in Earth Hour, Saturday March 28, 2009, 8:30 to 9:30 pm, your local time. Be a part of something BIG. Technorati Tags: earth hour, social action

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		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/27/earth-hour-a-time-for-coordinated-inaction/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Next? Earth: The Sequel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A page at the Environmental Defense web site provides links to video segments from the Discovery Channel 1-hour special based on Fred Krupp&#8217;s outstanding book, Earth: The Sequel. Krupp does what is probably the best job to date in outlining how the alternative energy sector of the economy will very quickly become simply the energy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/15/whats-next-earth-the-sequel/</link>
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		<title>The War on Drugs is a Failed Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Economist, a respectable and generally conservative news and analysis source, provides a well-reasoned argument for legalizing drugs. Even (especially) if you fear that legalization would lead to greater use, you may find some interesting insights in this article.

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		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2009/03/11/the-war-on-drugs-is-a-failed-strategy/</link>
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		<title>360° Solar Collector Reduces Costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fremont, CA, based Solyndra announces a new photovoltaic system that can be mounted less expensively, resists winds, and is efficient collecting solar radiation from 360° without sun tracking systems. The Solyndra system claims one-half the installation cost of solar panels. This is significant since half the cost of a residential solar panel system is for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.evolvemind.com/2008/10/14/360%c2%b0-solar-collector-reduces-costs/</link>
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